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20 ott 2020 · Tom Maschler has died aged 87. He joined Jonathan Cape in 1960 as editorial director and was chairman when he sold the company to Random House in 1989. For four decades Tom Maschler was the most important and most talked about figure in British publishing. A brilliant talent-spotter, he brought to Jonathan Cape an extraordinary range of ...
Leonard Marnham is "The Innocent" of the novel, a Post Office engineer who is employed by the Americans to install monitoring equipment in the tunnel they are building specifically to tap the Russians. The British and Americans view each other with distrust. Leonard is befriended by Bob Glass, an American obsessed with security.
Jonathan Cape (born November 15, 1879, London, England—died February 10, 1960, London) was a British publisher who in 1921 cofounded (with George Wren Howard) the firm that bears his name; it became one of the outstanding producers of general and high-quality books in the United Kingdom. At the age of 16 Cape worked as an errand boy for a ...
Thomas Michael Maschler (16 August 1933 – 15 October 2020) [1] [2] was a British publisher and writer. From 1960, he was influential as the head of publishing company Jonathan Cape over a period of more than three decades. Maschler was noted for instituting the Booker Prize for British, Irish and Commonwealth literature in 1969.
Frankissstein: A Love Story is a 2019 novel by Jeanette Winterson. It was published on 28 May 2019 by Jonathan Cape. [2] The novel employs speculative fiction and historical fiction to reimagine Mary Shelley 's classic novel Frankenstein (1818). The story switches between Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein in Geneva, Switzerland in 1816 and the ...
Il suo primo romanzo di fantascienza, The Strange Loop, fu pubblicato da Jonathan Cape nel 1984, e venne edito in Italia con il titolo Cerchio segreto nella collana Urania nel 1997. Ad esso seguì The Cabalist (Il Cabalista) nel 1985 e Conversations with Lord Byron on Perversion, 163 Years After his Lordship's Death nel 1987.
Modifica dati su Wikidata · Manuale. Un gioco da ragazzi e altre storie ( The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More) è una raccolta di sette racconti scritti da Roald Dahl . Il libro fu pubblicato nel 1977 da Jonathan Cape. Le storie sono state scritte in diversi momenti nel corso della sua vita, e si ritiene da molti che rappresentino ...
